"Accidental revolutionaries" net US$500,000 cosmology prize

Dr Brian Boyle, Director of CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility, is one of a group of scientists who will share the 2007 Gruber Cosmology Prize, worth US$500,000.

This year's Prize has been awarded to Saul Perlmutter (University of California Berkeley) and Brian Schmidt (Australian National University) and their teams, the Supernova Cosmology Project and the High-z Supernova Search team, for their discovery that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating.

Added by Helen Sim on 2007-07-18